Last spring Alabama’s legislature mandated coverage of autism therapy by health insurance plans. Such mandates provide benefits to people without spending our tax dollars, but threaten the viability of health insurance.

Using a new methodology that seems to have been designed to produce exactly the conclusion it did, the EPA has now found that the nation’s methane emissions have been dramatically higher in recent years than previously thought. And for the EPA, this is a story with a villain: In a major departure from earlier studies, this year’s report claims the oil and gas industry is the nation’s chief methane culprit.

80 percent of the college football top 25 coaches poll are located in states governed fully by Republicans (both chambers of the legislature and the governor) while only 16 percent are in democrat controlled states. Additionally, if these states were converted to Electoral College votes, a Republican would have 195 while a Democrat would have 62.